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by alexkus 14y ago
They can't stop satellite access or dialup to modems outside Syria (unless they spike the 'phone network), or TCP over HAM radio, or anything else like that. More than likely there are people getting access like this. However, anyone using
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by alexkus 14y ago
Not being able to get replies back would mean that setting up a new TCP connection would be impossible because you're not getting replies to the initial handshake. The TCP connections that were alive when the routes were dropped would time
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by alexkus 14y ago
Yes, Beagle 2.
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by alexkus 14y ago
We got something to Mars, it just didn't work!
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by alexkus 14y ago
http://money.stackexchange.com/questions/3667/what-is-the-pu...
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by alexkus 14y ago
> There's a thing I never understood about bike lights - why people use flashing lights? They are distracting like hell, and could probably cause some serious discomfort for people with photosensitive epilepsy. They're more visible than
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by alexkus 14y ago
I had relatively little trouble from cars with German, French, Italian or Spanish number plates.
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by alexkus 14y ago
In London we simply don't have space to put in dedicated cycle paths everywhere. IMHO, they're treating the symptom anyway, the problem is that a large number of road users in the UK (including quite a few cyclists) are aggressive, discourt
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by alexkus 14y ago
Indeed, and we don't need an extra 30+ posts in each thread that don't add to the discussion but simply point spelling/grammar errors.
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by alexkus 14y ago
From the Wiki page: "This closure effectively shut down Paradiski for that season." I skied in Vallandry that season staying right near Peisey-Vallandry where the cable car station was. If anything it made my skiing experience all the bette
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by alexkus 14y ago
And, as per https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DRMProhibited the DMCA cannot be applied to this software.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Since it uses [L]GPL software then this comes in to play:- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DRMProhibited " Does GPLv3 prohibit DRM? It does not; you can use code released under GPLv3 to develop any kind of DRM technology y
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Is/was Leaping Brain violating the license? No, I can't see how they are. Here's one GPL FAQ that's vaguely relevant:- https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CompanyGPLCostsMon... But this question is very relevant:- https://www
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by alexkus 14y ago
> I mean, even if you had a picosecond accurate clock available for use inside a server farm, you would still need a way to query it with a known (not necessarily zero; just known) latency to synchronize several machines. Servers are no
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by alexkus 14y ago
But with one-hop communications (as suggested by the post I was replying to) then the routing nodes (that could be made to log everything) know both the source and destination addresses as it is the only other hop in a one-hop path.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Unless, of course, the authorities seed Tor with a whole bunch of nodes that log everything. No timing attacks required. Tor relies on the fact that even if there's one or two bad apples among the bunch logging everything you're probably go
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by alexkus 14y ago
It's always boggled me that mobile operators (and the Police) do very little to help try and trace stolen phones, or share IMEI block lists amongst operators. Tying stolen IMEIs to IMSIs (when the phone is sold on or reused) should lead to
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by alexkus 14y ago
I'd rather not have to pollute a pure 64-bit install with a whole bunch of 32-bit libraries to run just one 32-bit app though. It's adds even more headache keeping those patched and up to date.
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by alexkus 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_residue also the Legendre symbol. Also there's no need to consider numbers >= 40 when working mod 40 47 * 47 (mod 40) = (40+7) * (40+7) (mod 40) 40 * n = 0 (mod 40) for any integ
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by alexkus 14y ago
Depends who you buy through, some of the websites (such as thetrainline.com) automatically request seat reservations even if you don't ask for them (and even if the service isn't going to provide them!) My seat reservation for my weekend tr
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by alexkus 14y ago
p^2 mod 40 being one of a small set of numbers is related to quadratic reciprocity. All odd numbers have a p^2 mod 40 value that is 1, 9 or 25. The margin isn't big enough for my proof, but only odd numbers with a multiple of 5 will have a
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by alexkus 14y ago
I dug around and found the latest version of my latest incantation, which is less developed than I thought. It only contains the source of the assembler; there's nothing of the game engine itself. But there's a description of the assembly l
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by alexkus 14y ago
Having enforced immovable schedules can be very useful for productivity. I doubt I'd have the willpower to ever enforce one upon myself but, luckily, I don't have to. My wakeup time is determined by a wriggly 2 year old alarm clock that com
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by alexkus 14y ago
I think the point being made is that given an organisation/entity that runs a whole bunch of stuff on a bunch of VM servers then, theoretically, the most important VM on a VM server (with regards to security/encryption) is now only as secur
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by alexkus 14y ago
Those in the UK (or soccer fans in general) will be more aware of this due to incidents involving Marc-Vivien Foé who collapsed and died during a game, and more recently Fabrice Muamba who survived a cardiac arrest (his heart had stopped fo
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by alexkus 14y ago
10 in ternary (which I think was his part of the joke)
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by alexkus 14y ago
> Only if your libc implements calloc as malloc+memset would this be a problem. Does glibc do that? OK, it's not guaranteed that it will be, but the source shows several code paths where memset can be called during calloc():- http://so
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by alexkus 14y ago
It doesn't behave the same with calloc because calloc zeros the memory and therefore writes to each page. Just try the same program replacing malloc( 1 << 30 ) with calloc( 1, 1<<30).
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by alexkus 14y ago
Yes, the three hardest things in Comp Sci are cache invalidation and off by one errors.
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by alexkus 14y ago
Sure, it's nothing special, it's a Robot Arena type programming game. Yes there are lots of them about (that have existed for many years), but I'm trying to remain as faithful as I can to a version (by SPA Publishing) that appeared on the R

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